DANCEST 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Demarcation Problem, Confirmation Bias, Thomas Kuhn
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= a statement is true when it corresponds with reality assumes that there is a physical reality which has priority and which the human mind tries to understand. From ancient greece to the end of the 19th century. = to understand the universe it is more important to rely on reason than on the senses because human perception is fallible, and the observable world is only a shadow of the real world. In contrast, the human soul has innate knowledge. = saw more scope for observation and made a distinction between inductive and deductive reasoning and favored the latter. True theoretical knowledge started from axioms from which new knowledge was deducted. = philosophical view that does not deny the existence of physical reality but denies that humans can have reliable knowledge of it (pyrroh of ellis, berkley) = true knowledge is based on god"s revelations (used up until middle ages around 17th century)
